Journalism professor and award-winning biographer Ed Cray was featured in a PBS documentary Woody Guthrie: Ain’t Got No Home, which aired as part of the American Masters series. The program, broadcast nationwide on July 12, featured an interview with Cray, along with Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger, author Joe Klein and others. Cray is the author of Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie, the first book to uncover new material from the extensive Woody Guthrie archives in New York. "All three of my biographies are, in one way or another, a retelling of my own life and times," Cray explains. "When I wrote about [General George] Marshall, it was a reflection of my childhood during World War II. With [Chief Justice Earl] Warren, it stemmed from growing up in California while Warren was governor, and later, when, as the PR director for the ACLU of Southern California, we looked to the Warren Court to defend civil liberties. Finally, with Woody, it was from my own experience in the Folk Music revival of the 1950s."
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